FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

I've owned this old, beat-up Callaway Big Bertha golf club for months. Only today did I get around to doing what I actually meant to do with it when I bought it.

Only about 7 days until Clacton is given the chance to make the funniest thing in politics anywhere happen. (Well, this USA American thinks it'd be funny.)

Farage losing to a bin (excuse me, "the establishment") would be the funniest outcome ever. Funnier even than that time Scotland's winds tested if Trump's comb-over was a toupee.

(I know Binface likely won't win, but really Farage lost 3 weeks ago.)

Man in my 50s here. Have started telling the important people in my life that I love them every time I see them. The embaressment, especially with the men, might shave a year or two off my life but I'm not stopping now. If I drop dead tomorrow they'll at least know how I felt.

In a job interview I was asked what I'd like to be remembered for. I responded that I had no desire to be remembered. My main takeaway from a BA and MA in history is that people in history books are villains or victims and I didn't want to be either. Didn't get the job.

#WindowFriday #Fensterfreitag

I just recalled the interesting tidbit that the idea of writing "(he/him)" and "(she/her)" was invented many thousands of years ago by the Sumerians, who often used written symbols you weren't meant to pronounce out loud to help you visually parse the structure of cuneiform, and this included he/she markers for personal names. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Determinative

A weird thing about living in #Massachusetts is constantly having other Americans tell you the life you live every day is impossible.

"You can't tax billionaires, they'll leave."

We have been, and they didn't.

"You can't legalize weed, it will increase crime."

We did, and it didn't.

"You can't make public transit free, it will cost too much."

We did, and it didn't.

And on and on, and the lesson to learn is don't listen to the billionaire media professional whiners and just do what's right for your community AND IT WORKS! But I still have to listen to this stupid shit every day.

i did it. i bolted InstallShield-style background to an MSI installer. you have no idea how difficult this was

Time for a new thread.

I've made a short blog post outlining the basic techniques of executable emoji, which I have dubbed emojissembly.

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2026/08/executable-emoji.html

I started working on a general COM2EMOJI utility that I might post at some point, but let's face it the chances of me being distracted by some shiny thing in the next 48 hours is quite high.

On the one hand this is procrastination, but on the other hand I've been procrastinating on writing these scripts for something like 12 years, so IDK.

The "hg touch" helper script is something I keep writing at various employers but then not getting able to take home because I wrote them at work. "hi" meanwhile was created to make "ht" work across SCMs, and I expect `hi -i`/`hi -g` to be things I use all the time-- both git and hg are weirdly baroque about "just give me the current changeset".

Okay well I didn't do the merge housekeeping I needed to, but instead I wrote some command line helper scripts I'd been meaning to, which in the spirit of a gist I here share:

https://codeberg.org/mcc/hi

`hi` tells you what version control system the current directory uses (as long as it's hg or git) and prints some basic orienting information. `ht` touches a file, mkdir-p-ing intermediate directories along the way, and adding to the current scm afterward.

Here it is in hg, git, and regular dirs:

uninstalling numpy and getting some napier's bones and logarithm tables to use with my edge-notched cards https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napier's_bones

edge-notched cards are pretty neat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8qHPXPnQps

doing a inverted kant on myself: coming up with complex moral explanations for why something is okay for everyone else but definitely unethical for me specifically

type of programmer who, when their C code does an out-of-bound read then crashes, moves their hands up & down and says "SIGSEGV-en"